The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-06

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to ten or twenty or thousand.
We must leave the railroads, and Ia
Dor to win to the cause of humanity,
the honest farming population. Nor
need we expect pay for such services.
The cause is one of such transcend
ent Importance, that the great mass
of workers must labor for the pure
love of it. Nor need we wait to get
a commission from some Executive
Committee The obligation to work
in this noble cause is not conditioned
upon an appointment from any com
mittee. The facts that you are able
to ,corh, that you feel impelled to do Il,
and that there is imperative need Of IL
should, in the absence of any other
authority, constitute our commission
to work. Nor is it necessary that all
the workers should be speakers. II
the Prohibition "laity" will each go
to "work opposite his own house"
and bring to bear the full measure
of his influence upon his neighbors
and upon all classes of voters to
whom he has access, the probabilities
of victory will be greatly augmented.
This individual appeal will do much,
provided the workers understand the
great issues at stake, and have the
means at hand to impart proper in
formation as to the. evils of the
traffic, as well as the ability to an
swer all the sophistries Of the rum
agents and their allies.
There might be ti&y thousand lay
,corkers of this type If they would
be willing 10 work as above suggest
ed. These workers, for the most
part, can, if no one else will help
them, supply themselves with suitable
literature, in the shape of tracts,
papers, etc. But the people will aid
in supplying funds for such literature,
If the staunch Prohibitonists in each
community will go to work in earnest.
The women, SO deeply interested
in the pending issue, can raise funds,
scatter tracts, supply their husbands
and others with the same, and use
their influence In every prudent
way to bring about the grand result
the dethronement of the liquor
fiend.
/ wish, IL possible, to fix It upon
the heart and conscience of every
friend Of Prohibition, that he cannot
innocently ,oithhold his or her indirid-
ual labor and contributions from this
Uitally important cause. If we do
what we cam. e., all we can, we
can await the decision of the ballot
box, with a clear conscience, and il
we are defeated each can say; "Well,
did all l could" but if we are de-
feated, the Prohibition non-lcorkers
will have cause for bitter self-reproach.
The thought that, through my negli-
gence or indifference, Prohibition
failed, would thrill my soul with
horror at the sight of every dram
shop, and at every evidence of the
ruin accustomed by the continuance of
the traffic, because did not do all |
could to stop it. And every specimen
of humanity blighted and ruined by
this curse; every home destroyed
by this same enemy of society, and
every drunkards wife and child that
CHANGED to meet my gaze-every
such case would ill my soul with
horror and bitterest lamentation, be-
couse | did not do my full duty in
irving 10 remove this many-headed
monsterl
Every man and woman in Texas
who desires to see this curse remov-
ed, ought to give money freely for
the purpose of scattering literature,
and defraying other necessary ex-
penses of the campaign, and then,
too, every one should work. workl!--
work unceesingly--work until tho
election is over.
Additional to all this, every Chris
tan who has access TO God in prayer,
should pray ddily-edrnestly and per
sereringly pray to The On'HiPrcse"t
Omnipotcnt and On'Riscient God, 10
helm as all 10 do our chole duty ia
his mighty struggle, and to gire MS ME
rictory orer this foe 70 all good. Yes;
let every Christian lay hold, by faith,
on the mighty power of God, and go